19-17-102. Definitions. Unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions apply in this chapter:
     (1) "Active member" means a volunteer firefighter credited with service under this chapter during the most recently reportable fiscal year.
     (2) "Benefit" means the pension, disability, or survivorship benefit provided under this chapter.
     (3) "Board" means the public employees' retirement board provided for in 2-15-1009.
     (4) "Claim" means a request from a member, surviving spouse, or dependent child for payment of medical or funeral expenses.
     (5) "Department" means the department of administration.
     (6) "Dependent child" means a child who is unmarried, who is under 18 years of age, and who is the child of a deceased member.
     (7) "Designated official" means a representative of a fire company appointed by the fire chief to perform specified actions and includes but is not limited to a fire company supervisor, a fire company secretary, and a fire company presiding officer as described in 7-33-2312.
     (8) "Disability" or "permanent total disability" means permanent total disability as defined in 39-71-116.
     (9) "Fire company" means a fire company organized under 7-33-2311 in an unincorporated area, town, or village and includes a volunteer fire department, a fire district, and a fire service area created under the provisions of Title 7, chapter 33.
     (10) "Fiscal year" means the 12-month period that begins on July 1 and ends on June 30 of the following year.
     (11) "Member" means a volunteer firefighter who has service credited under this chapter.
     (12) "Pension trust fund" means the volunteer firefighters' pension trust fund established to pay claims and benefits under this chapter.
     (13) "Retiree" or "retired member" means a member who is receiving full or partial participation benefits or disability benefits from the pension trust fund.
     (14) "Service" means cumulative periods of active membership that are credited only in full fiscal year increments.
     (15) "Supplemental insurance" means insurance that is carried by a fire company for the purposes of providing disability or death benefits and that is in addition to any insurance required by law, including workers' compensation insurance.
     (16) "Surviving spouse" means the spouse married to a member when the member dies.
     (17) "Survivorship benefit" means the monthly benefit paid to the surviving spouse or dependent child of a deceased member.
     (18) "Training" means instruction pertaining to firefighting that is supervised by the chief or a designated official.
     (19) "Volunteer firefighter" means a person who is an active member of an eligible fire company and is not compensated for services as a firefighter.

     History: (1) thru (3), (5)En. 11-2020.1 by Sec. 19, Ch. 157, L. 1977; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 132, L. 1977; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 480, L. 1977; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 489, L. 1977; Sec. 11-2020.1, R.C.M. 1947; (4)En. Sec. 3, Ch. 65, L. 1935; re-en. Sec. 5158.3, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 37, L. 1957; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 118, L. 1965; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 160, L. 1967; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 80, L. 1971; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 199, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 69, L. 1975; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 90, L. 1977; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 95, L. 1977; amd. Sec. 21, Ch. 157, L. 1977; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 480, L. 1977; Sec. 11-2022, R.C.M. 1947; R.C.M. 1947, 11-2020.1, 11-2022(5)(d); amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 57, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 19, Ch. 282, L. 1983; Sec. , MCA 1991; redes. by Code Commissioner, 1993; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 175, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 38, Ch. 370, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 90, Ch. 562, L. 1999; amd. Sec. 118, Ch. 99, L. 2001; amd. Sec. 26, Ch. 128, L. 2007.